Classroom rules and homework, sentence 21

A girl in Melbourne threw a pencil to a friend across the room; the point hit another boy in the eye and he needed treatment at the eye hospital.

Who acts: girl, point, boy · What happens: throw, hit, need · To what, where: pencil, friend, boy, eye, treatment, eye hospital

This is a sentence of the lesson «Classroom rules and homework» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, point, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threw	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Melbourne	case
4	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pencil	det
7	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threw	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 friend	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 friend	det
10	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threw	obl
11	across	across	ADP	_	13 room	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 room	det
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 friend	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 hit	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 point	det
16	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hit	nsubj
17	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 threw	parataxis
18	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	19 boy	det
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hit	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 eye	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 eye	det
22	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hit	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 needed	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 needed	nsubj
25	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hit	conj
26	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 needed	obj
27	at	at	ADP	_	30 hospital	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hospital	det
29	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hospital	compound
30	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 needed	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 threw	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	throw	past	a girl in Melbourne	a pencil	a friend across the room		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent pencil=Theme to friend=Destination
2	hit	past	the point	another boy		the eye	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent boy=Theme in eye=Destination
3	need	past	boy	treatment		the eye hospital	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot treatment=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:254-classroom-rules-and-homework.lesson:21.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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